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Salem Police have arrested 47-year-old Joseph Rodgers of East McMackin Street in Salem for alleged domestic battery. He was taken to the Marion County Jail. 24-year-old Delexia Akes of North Maple in ...
Bruce Kropp Jul 19, 2025
A 37-year-old homeless Centralia man has been charged in Clinton County Court with six sex offenses for allegedly having sex with an underage girl at a home he had been allowed to stay for the past we...
Bruce Kropp Jul 18, 2025 Thomas Atkinson
Marion County Sheriff Kevin Cripps reports all three people who tried to flee a burglary in progress at a home on Bernard Road in rural Centralia have now been arrested. Those taken into custody are 4...
Cole Wimberly Jul 18, 2025
The Odin Health and Rehabilitation Center is hosting a "Fireworks and Friends" event Friday night. Activity begins at seven with free popcorn, cookies, and light refreshments. The fireworks will be se...
Bruce Kropp Jul 18, 2025 File photo
The Salem Grade School Board Thursday night approved a five year extension of the school resource officer program. Superintendent Dr. Leslie Foppe says the contract with the City of Salem Police Depar...
Cole Wimberly Jul 18, 2025
Five men from Mississippi were sentenced in southern Illinois federal court after admitting to using spotlights to illegally hunt white-tailed deer in Massac, Jefferson, Union, Pope and Clark counties...
Cole Wimberly Jul 18, 2025
The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) announced today nonfarm payrolls totals reached a record high in June, increasing over-the-month up +9,400 to 6,175,200. June's record payroll job...
Cole Wimberly Jul 18, 2025
Centralia City Firemen say a fire burned the corner of the home from the ground to the attic early Thursday night. The fire was at a home owned by Keith Brown and occupied by Kenyatta and Caroline Har...
Cole Wimberly Jul 18, 2025
A lightning strike hit a Salem home during the thunderstorm activity late Thursday afternoon. The lightning hit the siding on the south side of the Doug Huff home at 825 North Broadway in Salem. It ch...
Cole Wimberly Jul 18, 2025 John Fowler / CC
Salem Police say no one required hospitalization following a two vehicle crash early Friday morning at West Main and Missouri Avenue. Reports indicate a pickup driven by 44-year-old Jose Tey Cusanero ...
Cole Wimberly Jul 18, 2025